TiVo Updates Series 3: Multi-Room Viewing and Unbox Streaming

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TiVo Updates Series 3: Multi-Room Viewing and Unbox Streaming

Owners of TiVO Series 3 or HD boxes have some sweet new features to play with. First off, content on on TiVO can be streamed to other boxes around the house using the new MRV (Multi-Room Viewing) functionality. You can stream out from the new boxes only, but any old TiVO will accept an incoming (non-HD) program.

TiVoToGo has also been added, allowing content to be sent to any computer on the network, where it can then be either watched or burned to DVD (via Roxio's Toast or Popcorn on the Mac).

Also, if you're using Amazon's Unbox service via TiVO, you no longer need to wait for the whole show to download before watching it. Much like YouTube, you can start viewing as soon as there is enough data in the buffer.

And lastly, there's now an official 500GB ad-on drive (previously there were only third party options). The eSATA "My DVR Expander" will cost $200 and give 65 extra hours of HD programming.